El Guardián de la Luz · Rata Blanca

217 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 71-73 and 139-147, and 7 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
EL GUARDIÁN DE LA LUZ · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 42 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 14 sections: 137 keep time, 48 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART A
PART I
PART M
PART I
PART M
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGIMYA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Guardián de la Luz?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is El Guardián de la Luz hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in El Guardián de la Luz?

28 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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